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7.1.05
WHAT DID NOT HAPPEN IN WASHINGTON YESTERDAY...
Some blogs are commenting on the bust-up in Congress yesterday. Democrats temporarily derailed the official sanctioning of the Nov 3 election. This sounds good, but was it too little, too late?
I offered to the following reaction to some friends on DEBATE-L after learning that the DNC declared yesterday a "victory" (!).
Now the REAL crux on how the Democrats opened/controlled the debate here yesterday, rest on one question:
Where was a peep from Senator Obama?
Where was the new great black hope? The newest member of the upper echelons of the talented-tenth? That face that is on this week's Newsweek. I heard not a word from his camp. Stone cold silence. Although a good friend of mine who is a cousin of the great Senator from Illinois, did report to me about a swank party the night prior to the crucial vote. But then, perhaps I should give Obama the benefit of the doubt. He wasn't hungover (!); while he will become the "junior" Senator and has to play it cool, and thus could not make any comments on Ohio--maybe (?).
But then again Obama's silence is as loud as Kerry's--reportedly "on vacation".
These Democrats are not playing for real. But they sho'-nuf are echoing the legacy of their ancestral Dixiecrats. They can't be playing for real, when Republicans use fraud and jackboot thuggery against African Americans and the poor, openly and in broad daylight. Where is the sincere praxis that flows from all that Edwards malarkey about his daddy the mill-worker?
Yesterday was yet another day (missed!) to get rid of the segregationalist President. And again they blew it! No wonder my good friend Adam Werbach nailed a Manifesto calling for the scrapping of the party to the walls of the DNC a few weeks after the Nov 3 bust-up.
While we know Kerry is a just a huckster. One would expect that at least Edwards, a white southerner, who is by no means a Johnny-come-lately, and who broke ranks and went off message immediately following the election to say that "we will count every vote", one would expect he would stand up.... One would expect that Obama, after his monumental DNC Pageant speech would all that he could do for the cause for justice against and in front of the forces of evil and damnation that grip this nation.
Make no mistake about it--we again stood at the crossroads--but some (too many?) were silent and did too little, relative to their power and position to avert the path into the hell and tyranny of another four year of George W. Bush
Maybe Kerry, Edwards and Obama had not recently heard the words of the munificent impressario of sagacious oratory: the late, Minister Malcolm "X" Little.
Please take the few moments and listen to and/or download to your ipod or mp3 player Minister Malcolm's profound, timely and insightful words, on the ancestral legacy of stone-silent Democrats. (Who get real silent when real US domestic civil and human rights are abused.)
You can listen Malcolm's words by pointing your web browser to:
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/malcolm-x/the-dixicrats.mp3
Do this just this once in lieu of your normal consumption of BBC, NPR, or what or whomever. (And if your age compromises your ability to do so, ask one of your children to help you with the computer and then you two together can discuss the Minister's words and the challenge(s) he raises.)
And recall one thing:
Yesterday, while the DNC and their bloggeratti claimed victory, the real losers are as always, the poor, the margins, mainly black and dare I say NOT increasingly brown--since 42% of the "brown" , Latino vote went down the Bush II drainpipe. Que pena! Que mierda! (Pero parece que vivimos en una nueva epoca cuando una gran cantidad de Latinos han olvidado su historia.)
Too bad there will not be a Ukraine in the US.
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/malcolm-x/the-dixicrats.mp3
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Some blogs are commenting on the bust-up in Congress yesterday. Democrats temporarily derailed the official sanctioning of the Nov 3 election. This sounds good, but was it too little, too late?
I offered to the following reaction to some friends on DEBATE-L after learning that the DNC declared yesterday a "victory" (!).
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Now the REAL crux on how the Democrats opened/controlled the debate here yesterday, rest on one question:
Where was a peep from Senator Obama?
Where was the new great black hope? The newest member of the upper echelons of the talented-tenth? That face that is on this week's Newsweek. I heard not a word from his camp. Stone cold silence. Although a good friend of mine who is a cousin of the great Senator from Illinois, did report to me about a swank party the night prior to the crucial vote. But then, perhaps I should give Obama the benefit of the doubt. He wasn't hungover (!); while he will become the "junior" Senator and has to play it cool, and thus could not make any comments on Ohio--maybe (?).
But then again Obama's silence is as loud as Kerry's--reportedly "on vacation".
These Democrats are not playing for real. But they sho'-nuf are echoing the legacy of their ancestral Dixiecrats. They can't be playing for real, when Republicans use fraud and jackboot thuggery against African Americans and the poor, openly and in broad daylight. Where is the sincere praxis that flows from all that Edwards malarkey about his daddy the mill-worker?
Yesterday was yet another day (missed!) to get rid of the segregationalist President. And again they blew it! No wonder my good friend Adam Werbach nailed a Manifesto calling for the scrapping of the party to the walls of the DNC a few weeks after the Nov 3 bust-up.
While we know Kerry is a just a huckster. One would expect that at least Edwards, a white southerner, who is by no means a Johnny-come-lately, and who broke ranks and went off message immediately following the election to say that "we will count every vote", one would expect he would stand up.... One would expect that Obama, after his monumental DNC Pageant speech would all that he could do for the cause for justice against and in front of the forces of evil and damnation that grip this nation.
Make no mistake about it--we again stood at the crossroads--but some (too many?) were silent and did too little, relative to their power and position to avert the path into the hell and tyranny of another four year of George W. Bush
Maybe Kerry, Edwards and Obama had not recently heard the words of the munificent impressario of sagacious oratory: the late, Minister Malcolm "X" Little.
Please take the few moments and listen to and/or download to your ipod or mp3 player Minister Malcolm's profound, timely and insightful words, on the ancestral legacy of stone-silent Democrats. (Who get real silent when real US domestic civil and human rights are abused.)
You can listen Malcolm's words by pointing your web browser to:
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/malcolm-x/the-dixicrats.mp3
Do this just this once in lieu of your normal consumption of BBC, NPR, or what or whomever. (And if your age compromises your ability to do so, ask one of your children to help you with the computer and then you two together can discuss the Minister's words and the challenge(s) he raises.)
And recall one thing:
Yesterday, while the DNC and their bloggeratti claimed victory, the real losers are as always, the poor, the margins, mainly black and dare I say NOT increasingly brown--since 42% of the "brown" , Latino vote went down the Bush II drainpipe. Que pena! Que mierda! (Pero parece que vivimos en una nueva epoca cuando una gran cantidad de Latinos han olvidado su historia.)
Too bad there will not be a Ukraine in the US.
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/malcolm-x/the-dixicrats.mp3
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